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Fielding enraged by Labor's election flyers

The Family First party says it is seeking legal advice over misleading flyers used in the South Australian election.

Voters in several marginal electorates were given how-to-vote cards that seemed to support Family First - but were in fact authorised by the Labor Party.

Family First Senator Steve Fielding says the practice should be against the law.

"We're taking legal advice," he said.

"We've got someone elected to the Upper House - it's not about us not winning or getting something out of this.

"It's just about doing the right thing, and this is blatantly wrong.

"I think most people most people would be shocked and horrified to think the Labor Party would stoop so low, I mean they must have been really desperate."

SA Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley says the act has not been breached and the matter would have to be challenged in a court of disputed returns.

"I don't think that when the legislation was formed in 1985 that it would have perhaps kept pace with the new strategies that are out there in the environment and obviously from a legislative perspective and my requirement to enforce that, it met the technical requirements as specified in the act," she said.

Labor's SA secretary Michael Brown says it is unfair to suggest the voting cards were immoral, as some have done.

"We were simply trying to inform the voters of those seats who wish to support Family First how they might also send their preferences to the Labor Party," he said.

"The how-to-vote card clearly states the preferences will go to Labor and it's authorised by me at the bottom."